Smithsonian Institution — Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, Vol. XVIII

Washington, The Smithsonian Institution, 1873. Hardcover. Green cloth, library binding, 639 pp. 5 plates/. Contains five articles. Includes: "Introduction" ; "Tables and Results of the Precipitation, in Rain and Snow, in the United States; and at some stations in Adjacent Parts of orth America, and in Central and South America" / Joseph Henry ; "Memoir on the Secular Variations of the Elements of the Orbits of the Eight Principal Planets, Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune; with Tables of the Same. Together with the Obliquity of the Ecliptic, and the Precession of the Equinoxes in both Longitude and Right Ascension" / John N. Stockwell ; "Observations on Terrestrial Magnetism and on the Deviations of the Compasses of the United States Iron-Clad Monadnock during the Cruise from Philadelphia to San Francisco, in 1865 and 1866" / William Harkness ; "Converging Series Expressing the Ratio between the Diameter and the Circumference of a Circle" / William Ferrel. G+ (Ex-library, with usual library markings, pocket at inside back cover, pages are tanning in margins, rebound hinges and cover are good and show minimal wear.) .